Sentence examples for slantways from inspiring English sources

But of course there was: I had peered slantways from a few inches away at Martin Kippenberger's abstract 8. Preis to see what it was made of (lacquer and denim, as it turns out).

Yes, dark it is, with the very occasional "beam of sunlight falling slantways" from above, for the less-than-acute reader who might need to be reminded just how shadowy a tale he is about to enter.